Word: gores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...riot in all the Diaries. Emma did not wait for Lee to propose, but flatly "said that I on first site was the object of her Choice." Emma poured kettlefuls of hot water on one of her husband's enemies and scratched his face until it was "a gore of Blood." When scandalized Bishop Pace commanded that Emma be "re-baptized" to atone for such conduct, "Emma asked the prevelege of choice in the man to Baptise her. The Bishop granted it. She says, I am much obliged. I demand Bapt'sm at your hands, seeing that...
...offer to finance the House Plan, Harvard's rooming program served only two classes, freshmen and seniors. At that time freshmen lived in halls spread out over the river front where the houses now stand. In 1910, they had moved into the first of these new dormitories, Standish and Gore. Four years later Smith Hall was completed, with McKinlock Hall going up after World War I. These halls had dining and common rooms, and were broken up into suites of one to five people...
...concrete floor of the slaughterhouse in the Parisian suburb of Arcueil was drenched with gore. Steam rose from the still-warm entrails of slaughtered horses. The next beast led toward the block sized up the grisly situation with terrible clarity. Its nostrils flared; its eyes rolled wildly. Screaming, rearing and kicking, it nearly brained a butcher with vicious swipes of its hoofs. The boss of the abattoir, Marius Auteroche, 52, a roly-poly little man whom all Arcueil knows as un roublard (a sharp operator), instantly decided that this horse had too much spirit to be slaughtered. He would...
...elephant wheeled and bolted. The rhino charged, snorting in the elephant's wake and trying to gore him with her 24-in. horn. Talbot watched from the rumble seat as the rhino drew alongside the elephant and ripped an 18-in. gash in his side. Then the two animals veered apart as if on diverging rails. "I suppose " says Talbot, "that mama went back to her baby and told him: That's how it's done...
Holding his first annual cattle auction at his farm near Carthage, Tenn., Democratic Senator Albert Gore unloaded 51 females and four bulls for a tidy gross of $69,530. Observing the auction, Artist-Author Ludwig (Hotel Splendide) Bemelmans was so carried away by Miss Burgess of Marwood, a Black Angus yearling heifer, that he got her for $1,250. "She had such a kind face," Bemelmans explained, "I couldn't keep from buying her. I also liked the idea of keeping her for a pet, not raising her for slaughter." To put Miss Burgess up, Bemelmans will...